A triple mando greets players on the first hole of the Samui Swine Classic. Photo: Gregg Barsby

Sawadee!

Picture yourself on a karst island off of Thailand’s southeastern peninsular coast. Sounds like a dream vacation, right? Now imagine you are there playing a PDGA Tour A-Tier in early February, immersed in tropical conditions amidst palm tree groves and grazing water buffalo. It seems like fantasia for snowbound Europeans and North Americans but, disc golf fans, it isn’t.